Velia Minicozzi

Pubblicazioni dal 2007 ad oggi

• Tiziana Mancini, Salvatore Macis, Rosanna Mosetti, Nicole Luchetti, Velia Minicozzi, Andrea Notargiacomo, Marialilia Pea, Augusto Marcelli, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Stefano Lupi, Annalisa D'Arco. Infrared Spectroscopy of SARS‐CoV‐2 Viral Protein: from Receptor Binding Domain to Spike Protein. Advanced Science (2024) 2400823
• Muroni A, Minicozzi V, Piro MC, Sinibaldi F, Mei, G, Di Venere A. Human cytochrome C natural variants: Studying the membrane binding properties of G41S and Y48H by fluorescence energy transfer and molecular dynamics. Int J Biol Macrom (2024) 274:133371
• De Santis E, Alleva S, Minicozzi V, Morante S, Stellato F. Probing the Dynamic Landscape: from Static to Time-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to Investigare Copper Redox Chemistry in Neurodegenerative Disorders. ChemPlusChem (2024) e202300712
• Botticelli, S.; La Penna, G.; Minicozzi, V.; Stellato, F.; Morante, S.; Rossi, G.C.; Faraloni, C. Predicting the Structure of Enzymes with Metal Cofactors: The Example of [FeFe] Hydrogenases. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25, 3663. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25073663
• Fulvio Erba, Giampiero Mei, Velia Minicozzi, Annalaura Sabatucci, Almerinda Di Venere, Mauro Maccarrone. Conformational Dynamics of Lipoxygenases and Their Interaction with Biological Membranes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2024, 25, 2241.
• Maria Petrosino, Leonore Novak, Alessandra Pasquo, Paola Turina, Emidio Capriotti, Velia Minicozzi, Valerio Consalvi, Roberta Chiaraluce. The complex impact of cancer-related missense mutations on the stability and on the biophysical and biochemical properties of MAPK1 and MAPK3 somatic variants. Human Genomics 2023 17(1), 95
• Velia Minicozzi, Tianwen Qi, Antonella Gradogna, Marina Pozzolini, Stefan Milenkovic, Antonio Filippini, Matteo Ceccarelli, Armando Carpaneto. A commentary on the inhibition of human TPC2 channel by the natural flavonoid naringenin: Methods, experiments, and ideas. Biomolecular Concepts. 2023 14 (1), 20220036
• Erba F, Di Paola L, Di Venere A, Mastrangelo E, Cossu F, Mei G, Minicozzi V. Head or tail? A molecular dynamics approach to the complex structure of TNF-associated factor TRAF2. Biomol Concepts. 2023 14(1), 20220031. doi: 10.1515/bmc-2022-0031
• Luchetti, N.; Minicozzi, V. Theoretical Study of Vibrational Properties of Peptides: Force Fields in Comparison and Ab Initio Investigation. Condens. Matter 2022, 7, 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/
  condmat7030053
• Nucara, A.; Ripanti, F.; Sennato, S.; Nisini, G.; De Santis, E.; Sefat, M.; Carbonaro, M.; Mango, D.; Minicozzi, V.; Carbone, M. Influence of Cortisol on the Fibril Formation Kinetics of Ab42 Peptide: A Multi‐Technical Approach. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 6007.
• https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23116007
• E De Santis, V Minicozzi, GC Rossi, F Stellato, S Morante. Is styrene competitive for dopamine receptor binding? (2022) Biomolecular Concepts 13: 200-206
• Minicozzi, V.; Di Venere, A.; Caccuri, A.M.; Mei, G.; Di Paola, L. One for All, All for One: The Peculiar Dynamics of TNF-Receptor-Associated Factor (TRAF2) Subunits. Symmetry 2022, 14, 720. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040720
• Festa, M.; Minicozzi, V.; Boccaccio, A.; Lagostena, L.; Gradogna, A.; Qi, T.; Costa, A.; Larisch, N.; Hamamoto, S.; Pedrazzini, E.; et al. Current Methods to Unravel the Functional Properties of Lysosomal Ion Channels and Transporters. Cells (2022) 11, 921.
• https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11060921
• Nicolai, E.; Minicozzi, V.; Di Paola, L.; Medda, R.; Pintus, F.; Mei, G.; Di Venere, A. Symmetric versus Asymmetric Features of Homologous Homodimeric Amine Oxidases: WhenWater and Cavities Make the Difference. Symmetry (2022) 14, 522. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030522
• Stellato, M. P. Anania, A. Balerna, S. Botticelli, M. Coreno, G. Costa, M. Galletti, M. Ferrario, A. Marcelli, V. Minicozzi, S. Morante, R. Pompili, G.C. Rossi, V. Shpakov, F. Villa, A. Cianchi “Generated X-ray Pulses: Betatron Radiation Opportunities at EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB” (2022) Condens Matter 7, 23
• Ripanti, N. Luchetti, A. Nucara, V. Minicozzi, A. Di Venere, A. Filabozzi, M. Carbonaro “Normal mode calculation and Infrared spectroscopy of proteins in water solution: relationship between amide I Transition Dipole Strength and secondary structure” (2021) Int J Biol Macrom
• Di Venere, E. Nicolai, V. Minicozzi, AM Caccuri, L Di Paola, G Mei “The Odd Faces of Oligomers: The Case of TRAF2-C, A Trimeric C-Terminal Domain of TNF Receptor-Associated Factor” (2021) Int J Mol Sci 22: 5871
• A D’Amore, A Gradogna, F Palombi, V Minicozzi, M Ceccarelli, A Carpaneto, A Filippini “The Discovery of Naringenin as Endolysosomal Two-Pore Channel Inhibitor and Its Emerging Role in SARS-CoV-2 Infection” (2021) Cells 10: 1130
• V Minicozzi, A Di Venere, E Nicolai, A Giuliani, A M Caccuri, L Di Paola, G Mei “Non-symmetrical structural behavior of a symmetric protein: the case of homo-trimeric TRAF2 (tumor necrosis factor-receptor associated factor 2)” (2021) J Biomol Struct Biol 39: 319
• D Benkerrou, V Minicozzi, A Gradogna, S Milenkovic, I Bodrenko, M Festa, L Lagostena, L Cornara, A D'amore, M Ceccarelli, A Filippini, A Carpaneto “A perspective on the modulation of plant and animal Two Pore Channels (TPCs) by the flavonoid naringenin” (2019) Biophysical Chemistry 254:106246
• A Vitale & V Minicozzi “Monitoring Insulin Aggregated Structures in the Presence of Epigallocatechin-3-gallate and Melatonin by Molecular Dynamics Simulations” (2019) Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 59(7): 3214-3221 doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00058
• M Petrosino, A Pasquo, L Novak, A Toto, S Gianni, E Mantuano, L Veneziano, V Minicozzi, A Pastore, R Puglisi, E Capriotti, R Chiaraluce, V Consalvi “CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN FRATAXIN MISSENSE VARIANTS IN CANCER TISSUES” (2019) Human Mutation 40:1400-1413
• E Capozzi, S Aureli, V Minicozzi, GC Rossi, F Stellato, S Morante “Designing effective anticancer-radiopeptide carriers: A Molecular Dynamics study of their interaction with tumor and healthy cell membranes” (2018) BBA – Biomenbranes 1860: 2348-2355
• M Carbonaro, F. Ripanti, A. Filabozzi, V. Minicozzi, F. Stellato,E. Placidi, S. Morante, A. Di Venere, E. Nicolai, P. Postorino, A. Nucara “Human insulin fibrillogenesis in the presence of epigallocatechin gallate and melatonin: structural insights from a biophysical approach” (2018) International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 115:1157-1164
• Villa, A. Cianchi, M. Coreno, S. Dabagov,A. Marcelli, V. Minicozzi, S. Morante, F. Stellato “Design study of a photon beamline for a soft X-ray FEL driven by high gradient acceleration at EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB” (2018) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 909:294-297
• Ferrario, …, V. Minicozzi, …, et al. “EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB Design study towards a compact FEL facility at LNF” (2018) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 909:134-138
• Stellato, Z. Fusco, R. Chiaraluce, V. Consalvi, S. Dinarelli, E. Placidi, M. Petrosino, G.C. Rossi, V. Minicozzi and S. Morante “The effect of b-sheet breaker peptides on metal associated Amyloid-b peptide aggregation process” (2017) Biophysical Chemistry 229:110-114
• M Petrosino, L Lori, A Pasquo, C Lori, V Consalvi, V Minicozzi, S Morante, A Laghezza, A Giorgi, D Capelli, R Chiaraluce “Single Nucleotide Polymorphism of PPARγ, a Protein at the Crossroads of Physiological and Pathological Processes” (2017) Int J Mol Sci 18:36
• E De Santis, V Minicozzi, S Morante, GC Rossi, F Stellato “The role of metals in protein conformational disorders - The case of prion protein and Aβ –peptide” (2016) Journal of Physics: Conference Series 689(1):012028
• M Carbonaro, A di Venere, A Filabozzi, P Maselli, V Minicozzi,S Morante, E Nicolai, A Nucara, E Placidi, F Stellato “Role of dietary antioxidant (-)-epicatechin in the development of blactoglobulin fibrils” (2016) BBA - Proteins and Proteomics 1864, pp. 766-772 DOI information: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2016.03.017
• E De Santis, V Minicozzi, O Proux, GC Rossi, KI Silva, MJ Lawless, F Stellato, S Saxena, S Morante “Cu(II)-Zn(II) cross modulation in amyloid-beta peptide binding: an X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy study” (2015) J Phys Chem B 119(52):15813-20. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b10264
• A Ceccarelli, A Di Venere, E Nicolai, A De Luca, V Minicozzi, N Rosato, AM Caccuri and G Mei “TNFR-associated factor-2 (TRAF2): not only a trimer” (2015) Biochemistry 54(60):6153-61
• G La Penna, V Minicozzi, S Morante, GC Rossi, F Stellato “A first-principle calculation of the XANES spectrum of Cu2+ in water” (2015) J Chem Phys 143: 124508
• MG Di Carlo, V Minicozzi, V Foderà, V Militello, V Vetri, S Morante and M Leone “Thioflavin T templates Amyloid b(1-40) Conformation and Aggregation pathway” (2015) Biophysical Chemistry 206:1-11 10.1016/j.bpc.2015.06.006
• F Stellato, V Minicozzi, GL Millhauser, M Pascucci, O Proux, GC Rossi, A Spevacek and S Morante “Copper-Zinc cross-modulation in prion protein binding” (2014) Eur Biophys J 43:631-642
• V Minicozzi, R Chiaraluce, V Consalvi, C Giordano, C Narcisi, P Punzi, GC Rossi and S Morante “Computational and experimental studies on b-sheet breakers targeting Ab1-40 fibrils” J. Biol. Chem. (2014) 289:11242-11252
• Ferrario et al. “IRIDE: Interdisciplinary research infrastructure based on dual electron linacs and lasers” (2014) NUCL INSTRUM METH A740:138-146 DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2013.11.040 [1]
• Alesini et al. “IRIDE White Book, An Interdisciplinary Research Infrastructure based on Dual Electron linacs&lasers” (2013)
• A Maiorana, T Marino, V Minicozzi, S Morante, N Russo “A Micro-Enviromental Study of the Zn+2-Ab1-16 Structural Properties” (2013) Biophysical Chemistry, 182:86-93 DOI information: 10.1016/j.bpc.2013.07.002
• R Sarangi, P Frank, M Benfatto, S Morante, V Minicozzi, B Hedman, and K Hodgson “The XAS Model of Solvation About Sulfur in Aqueous L-cysteine” (2012) JCP 137, 205103, DOI: 10.1063/1.4767350
• P Giannozzi, K Jansen, G La Penna, V Minicozzi, S Morante, GC Rossi and F Stellato, “Zn induced structural aggregation patterns of b-amyloid peptides by first–principle simulations and XAS measurements” (2012) Metallomics, 4:156-165
• F Stellato, A Spevacek, O Proux, V Minicozzi, GL Millhauser, S Morante “Zinc Modulates Copper Coordination Mode in Prion Protein Octa-repeat Subdomains” (2011) EBJ 40(11):1259 – 1270, DOI: 10.1007/s00249-011-0713-4
• V Minicozzi, S Morante “Is Cu involved in prion oligopeptide stability? Experiments and numerical simulations.” (2010) Int. J. Quan. Chem. 110: 656-680 ISSN: 0020-7608
• Besio, S Alleva, A Forlino, A Lupi, C Meneghini, V Minicozzi, A Profumo, F. Stellato, R. Tenni, S. Morante “Identifying the structure of the active sites of human recombinant prolidase” European Biophysics Journal (2010) 39: 935-945 ISSN: 0175-7571
• F Guerrieri, V Minicozzi, S Morante, GC Rossi, S Furlan, G La Penna, “Modeling the interplay of glycine protonation and multiple histidine binding of copper in the Prion protein octarepeat sub-domains” (2009) J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 14: 361 ISSN: 0949-8257
• V Minicozzi, S Morante, GC Rossi, F Stellato, N Christian, K Jansen. “The role of metals in aggregation. Experiments and ab initio simulations” (2008) Int J Quan Chem 108: 1992 – 2015 ISSN: 0020-7608 (
• Minicozzi, F.Stellato, M.Comai, M. Dalla Serra, C.Potrich, W.Meyer-Klaucke, S.Morante, “Identifying the Minimal Cu and Zn Binding Site Sequence in Amyloid Beta Peptides” (2008) J. Biol. Chem. 283: 10784-10792. ISSN: 0021-9258
• Minicozzi, S.Morante, G.C.Rossi, F.Stellato, K.Jansen, “The role of metals in misfolding and aggregation processes: X-ray spectroscopy and numerical simulations” in “From Computational Biophysics to System Biology (CBSB07)”, Proceedings of the NIC Workshop 2007, 36: 223 (http://www.fz-juelich.de/nicseries/volume36)
• Minicozzi, S. Morante, G. C. Rossi, F. Stellato, “The rôle of Metals in Amyloid Aggregation: A Test Case for ab initio Simulations” Comp. Mod. Sci. and Eng. 963, 92-97 (2007)